TRAVEL: These flights will allow travellers, all tested twice to verify that they do not have the Covid-19, to avoid the mandatory quarantine period on arrival This is a first in Europe. In Italy, American passengers will be able to benefit from “Covid free” flights to Europe, with the abolition of the coroànavirus compulsory quarantine. On condition of […]
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CORONAVIRUS: The Prime Minister stressed that he was “not sure that air transport” almost suspended in France, “can resume in good conditions quickly” Still a little early to take out the suitcases. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe prepared the French on Sunday for a summer vacation still in the shade of the coronavirus, saying he feared that trips far abroad would not be advised immediately. “Can we […]
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Qantas will stand down 20,000 staff for the next two months as the coronavirus pandemic continues to have a ‘devastating impact’ on the travel industry. The airline said in a statement to the ASX that it was also cutting scheduled international flights for the same period from late March until May. It comes in the […]
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Five Air France airline unions are calling for a protest against the increased use of subcontracting. Employees assigned to short-haul flights at Air France, at regional stopovers and at Paris-Orly, are mobilized in the context of a strike call on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd February 2020. A call by five unions (CGT, CFDT, CFE-CGC, FO and UNSA) […]
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Placed on September 23 in receivership, XL Airways announced Monday to be “no longer able to ensure its flights” and their interruption “as of Monday at 3pm The low-cost airline XL Airways announced Monday 30th September 2019 the removal of all flights, two days before a court decision on a possible recovery or its liquidation, strongly denouncing a competition that […]
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AVIATION: The Icelandic low cost airline Wow Air employs a thousand people The last victim of the Battle of the Atlantic, the low-cost Icelandic airline WOW Air ceased operations on Thursday and cancelled all flights, blocking thousands of passengers in Europe and North America. WOW Air, which carries more than a third of travelers to Iceland , had no investors left […]
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RECORD: The activity of the Air France-KLM group was nevertheless affected in December by strikes and the movement of “yellow vests” … Great first for Air France-KLM . The giant of the French-Dutch air transport crossed for the first time last year the bar of the 100 million passengers transported, a record obtained despite an internal social movement in […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the tragic Airline crash earlier this week by the Germanwings aircraft in the South of France, airlines across the globe have ordered there should be two people in the cockpit at all times. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the Airbus A320 into the ground near Seyne-les-Alpes, […]
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